Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard .
2 ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time .
3 Members of the public took the opportunity to see for themselves in a unique open day .
4 Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time .
5 So if you let me take a copy , I 'll give that lease you signed to my company solicitor and get him to go through it with a magnifying glass .
6 It is n't one of the large free-standing circular linkers ( through Silver do have one of these and I hope to write about it in a later article ) .
7 But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process .
8 ‘ It would n't be wise to communicate with him in the usual way while he 's there . ’
9 These planks he marked A , B , C , etc. , and all the man had to do was to sight along them in the proper order and he could not help getting the line right .
10 I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’
11 This special tribute in WWF News attempts , however inadequately , to give WWF supporters and staff a picture of what Peter 's many qualities and leadership skills meant to some of those who have been privileged to work with him in a great adventure .
12 He has always had a high reputation in England and the Covent Garden Orchestra were obviously eager to work with him in the 1950s .
13 And I want to work with you for a new Kenya . ’
14 You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something .
15 These factors may account for the fact that the blackboard metaphor has not usually been used for anaphor resolvers , whose control structures are very often relatively simple , with different knowledge sources brought to bear in something like a predetermined order .
16 His most effective action so far has been to deflect the corruption allegations by recruiting Spain 's ‘ Mr Clean ’ to stand alongside him as a Socialist candidate .
17 This can be expressed in Hume 's terms of the tendency of the mind to pass from one to the other , but one must be careful how one interprets such a tendency .
18 I would like and I feel humble for asking , for anyone to write to me about the above .
19 And naturally his only means of getting in touch would be to write to her at the one address he knew : Elise 's cottage .
20 ‘ Because John does shift work I get very lonely and would like to write to someone in a similar position to myself , preferably living in the Sheffield area . ’
21 I have been asked to write to you about the restricted availability of the public toilets in Scorton .
22 At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write to you about the following :
23 I therefore feel qualified to write to you about the French electronic machines.l
24 After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’
25 That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough .
26 It is a method of RE which focuses on pupils ' own capacity to relate to themselves at a deeper level — to their own authentic feelings and insights .
27 Her instinct is to relate to everyone in the same way .
28 These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place .
29 I had to work on them for a long time .
30 Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s .
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